Neighbour parking in front of my house
We have a neighbour who doesn't work having recently become a mum and not a day goes by without them having visitors. The trouble is they often park at the bottom of our front lawn right outside the house. They park fully on the pavement mind you, which is illegal, and they basically treat the front of our house as if it was their car park! This wouldn't be quite so bad if it were not for that fact that they have a drive which easily takes two cars and often gets left empty whilst someone is parked outside our house. The pavement itself is very wide as it's on a corner, which means you can fully park on the pavement (which, as I say, is illegal) and it ends up looking like some sort of 'adhoc' car park.
Our neighbour's house is the end of the street, which means there's no one on the other side, there's just a side road which means there's really no excuse for their thoughtless parking. I've asked them countless times not to allow their visitors to park outside our house and the response was "What's the problem?!!". Well I think the problem is that some people are incredibly selfish and inconsiderate!
The Weekly Gripe says: I can fully appreciate where you are coming from with this gripe. We used to rent a house in a place called Caversfield and experienced similar parking issues with my neighbour. She introduced herself to us shortly after she bought the house next door by complaining to us that according to her deeds our parking space was actually hers and ours was the next one down. This was actually quite amusing because the parking space was directly outside our house. What did she expect us to do, ask everyone in the street to move down one space to keep her happy?
This was then followed up by months of inconvenience due to her visitors parking in our space. I've lost count of the number times we had to knock on the door and ask them to move so we could park up. More often than not it was her mother that was visiting... (mumbles something about like mother, like daughter). This was particularly irritating after arriving home late at night with a small child and a boot full of luggage to ferry into the house. But the most annoying thing about all this was there was actually an overflow car park nearby that was set aside for the use of visitors.
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I have neighbour on either side of my property, they are both tenants, between them they have 3 van's, they park one van on their drive, another van in front of my house (its single yellow line there) and the third van is parked on the other side in front of their property.The view I get from my front rooms is van, van, van on all 3 sides. They are all eastern europeans, I have tried to discuss this with them and requested not to park in front of my property but no success. What do I do?
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If I were you I would simply block them in with an obstacle or car etc.
This will of course make them very angry so be prepared.
If they are parked on your drive isn't this trespass?
Maybe a anti-trespass sign would have more effect than one simply saying "Private Drive"
This will of course make them very angry so be prepared.
If they are parked on your drive isn't this trespass?
Maybe a anti-trespass sign would have more effect than one simply saying "Private Drive"
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I am fortunate enough to have a farm with a large drive, however this does take maintenance as it is gravel and twice a year i have to re-type1 it and level and whack. on a daily basis i have people use it as a lay by, people stop for lunch, stop to use the phone and even people who live opposits visitors park on it. I have put up a sign which states private drive, no parking no tuning as i am the one who has to maintain it yet it makes no difference. THE QUESTION IS ARE PEOPLES INSURANCE VALID ON MY DRIVE OR CAN I JUST RAM THEM BACK ONTO THE ROAD? I would not consider it ethical to park on a strangers drive so why should i have to pay for people to use mine??
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I have a new neighbour who persistently parks outside his house blocking both parking bays by parking in the middle of both, he more recently has allowed a friend to 'abandon' their car there whilst away presumeably on holiday, it has just sat for 3 week now!!! All so he can use his unpermitted drive as he has not yet applied for drop kerb. Are there any laws that prevent such selfishness persistently.
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Ann, if it's a public highway, nobody has any right to park on it unless there's parking bays marked out. Most sensible parking is tolerated, but the police can book anyone they consider to be causing an obstruction. So, it doesn't matter whose house it's outside, you daughter has as much right to park there as your neighbours have - it's not their road.
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I live on a council estate in Birchwood in Lincoln. Slap bang outside my flat is a grass verge. There are parking spaces everywhere around this grass verge. I think people are scared of using these spaces as I see one of my neighbours sometimes drive ROUND the grass verge in his 4x4 (and looking like they are going to park in a parking space), he instead drives ON the pavement, onto the grass verge and parks at an angle towards the road. VERY strange behaviour indeed. Or... These "freaky parkers" as I call them, decide to park on this grass verge head-on so their high-beam light shines directly into my kitchen and blinds me when I am washing the dishes! Why do people avoid parking spaces at all costs? They make it harder for themselves by just being lazy, surely? I must make a sign that says PARKING HERE!!!!! In big neon lights and paint lines on the tarmac to entice "normal" behaviour.
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Patience 2010, reading through your comment, I find it quite amazing that none of you have simply sprayed or scratched the car! that always solves these problems, you really are too patient!
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We have one neighbour who is just being totally inconsiderate to all the residents. 2 years people have been polite, but now everyone is getting irritated with the way they park, and where they park. Sometimes they park outside other peoples houses, not allowing enough room to back out of their drives. Sometimes they park their cars as though they have been abandoned, and other times they park on the grass verge. It is getting ridiculous but I can see both sides. The problem being, if they are challenged it will just start a whole load of abuse. Not something anyone wants. The council don't want to do anything about it either. So what do you do? Everyone else gets on well, it is just particular household. One of them is a private driving instructor, so you would think he understands the needs to be courteous, but he is the worst of them all. The arrogance of the individuals is testing everyones patience. What can we do legally next? There are areas where they can park alongside other peoples houses, which is not the problem. It is the manner in which they park and how they obstruct other householders.
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Patience 2010 - 3-Oct-10 18:54
I live in a through road with 2 spaces on my drive which my husband and myself use.Since my daughter has passed her test she goes in the space outside our house.The house on our right has two drives and two cars.They have a real issue when we have visitors who park in the road along side their house even though it is only along their fence and there is plenty of room.They have been abusive to our visiting daughter.They have a side gate and have said they want access to their backway and she is stopping them off loading their shopping.They also have another gate next to their drive which they could use.Does anyone know if they have a right to stop her parking there legally as the situation is getting worse.
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PS; The downstairs neighbours do not have a vehicle, we do, and we both have visitors that are currently having to park elsewhere (halfway down a busy main road in a min-shopping complex!).
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I live in a privately-rented house converted into 2 flats, which has a double driveway at the end of the garden - a parking space for each flat. My next-door neighbour owns her house, also has a double driveway with a garage directly on the property, another garage wihthin the car park (it is a rear cul-de-sac if you understand) and another 2/3 garages within the local area. These garages house steam engine bits and pieces (her son is an enthusiast and still lives at home), but they have 3 cars to park. They have previously, without permission, parked on our driveway, as have their guests - even if there has been space available on their own driveway.
Recently they asked permission to park one of their vehicles on our drive whilst said drive has work completed on it. We agreed, on the proviso that when the work is completed, the car is moved - also agreed by the owners. The work has been completed over 2 weeks ago now, and we have subtly mentioned the car being moved back twice since, to no avail.
Problem is, we think our next-door neighbour has spoken with our downstairs neighbour to ask their permission for the vehicle to remain on our driveway!!!
Anyone have any thoughts on how I sort this out without resorting to criminal damage/neighbour dispute? My only thought at this time is to ask the downstairs neighbour if they have actually had such a conversation, but these neighbours keep very much to themselves...
Recently they asked permission to park one of their vehicles on our drive whilst said drive has work completed on it. We agreed, on the proviso that when the work is completed, the car is moved - also agreed by the owners. The work has been completed over 2 weeks ago now, and we have subtly mentioned the car being moved back twice since, to no avail.
Problem is, we think our next-door neighbour has spoken with our downstairs neighbour to ask their permission for the vehicle to remain on our driveway!!!
Anyone have any thoughts on how I sort this out without resorting to criminal damage/neighbour dispute? My only thought at this time is to ask the downstairs neighbour if they have actually had such a conversation, but these neighbours keep very much to themselves...
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At the end of the day you don't own the road outside your house so anyone has the right to park there. However it is just inconsiderate of people who do it on a regular basis when they have somewhere else to park.
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I am currently experiencing something similar and I can now understand why some people end up in jail over this stuff. I just don't understand the inconsideration of it. WHY???
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Parkinyourownbloodyspace - 22-Apr-10 01:26
sarah44, stop being so 'wet' and damage his car proper, and then look the lazy police in the eye and deny that you had anything to do it. The police always go on about needing evidence - I lived next door to neighbours from hell and the lazy git police did nothing because there was no direct evidence -so use that against the miserable old sod and his car. Going out in the dead of night and damaging his car; letting down his tires, scratchign the paintwork; hell, putting a brick through the window; all this is a legitimate thing to do if the ignorant sod refuses to be reasonable.
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miserablemoaninggit - 31-Mar-10 00:26
The WEEKLYGRIPE sounds way out of line with his attitude to the parking space at Caversfield. The space was on the woman's deeds and you made it yours? Isn't that hypocritical? And yes you should all have moved down to accommodate her if the space was on her deeds. That means it's hers! Belongs to her, not YOU just because it was more convenient for you to continue the way you had been behaving.
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We have the same problem. We just have one old man who doesnt even live here but visits his son all the time and as he doesnt want to block his son's drive up or park there he parks right outside our house. We've left him a note and a week ago I had a polite chat (me being the polite one, not him!) I told him that whilst I knew he could park there it was courtesy not to, to which he wasnt very disrespondent - he sat in his car for a hour or so after I'd asked him not to do it to wind me up and then the next morning came back and did the same thing seemingly as an act of rebellion. His son unfortunalty has a drive and a white line paid for on the street (which we will now do, despite the high cost as we have to get the ground excavated to put a drive in) so it would be illegal if we repaid the favour. He seems to be doing it more since I talked to him which is even more annoying as I hate the idea of him laughing at me. This led to my partner putting conditioner on his car!!! Its not criminal damage (if you were to put a sledgehammer to a car you'd be big trouble with the police!) but I've still just had the police round even though no damage was caused and they dont know we did it (and as theres a school right by us it could have easily been a kid). Very unfair as it feels as though he is sat there laughing at us. When we ask nicley he acts up even more and if we try to do something about it he just goes running off to tell on us! Not sure what to do now as he seems like a proper stubborn old man. Seems the only solution is to either be inconsiderate to others or pay thousands we dont have to get a drive dug out. Partner seems to think it'd be a good idea to just keep putting conditioner on the car as the police actually cant do anything if there's no damage but I'm not so sure. Any other solutions?
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@ Sort out your own parking... I'd start from displaying a warning this is a private property and if they park there again, have their cars removed at their own expense.
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what I do is take my sledgehammer to their car and if u did that I guarantee they wouldn't do it again
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Sort out your own parking... I'd have put their cars on bricks or just parked infront of their cars and refused to move it till I was ready. If that was the polices response to it, I'd have asked THEM to move the cars and have a non friendly word with the owners.
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I am sick of inconsiderate parking. I have one motability car , parked on road outside my house. next door has 4 cars , all on road, people in corner have 3 plus numerous visitors parking outside. I am always on pins as I arrive home , knowing inconsiderate people will park outside my house. what has happened to courtesy?
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